Contemporary Issues In Bioethics
ISBN: 9780495006732 | 0495006734
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 9/25/2007
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This anthology offers students balanced coverage of the most pressing topics in bioethics, including partial-birth abortion, organ transplants, and global pandemics, to name a few. With a range of classic and current essays as well as actual medical and legal cases written by outstanding medical ethics scholars, CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN BIOETHICS helps readers understand each issue from a diverse range of standpoints?including those of medical researchers and practitioners, legal experts, and philosophers.
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| Introduction To Ethics | |
| Ethical Theory and Bioethics | |
| Fundamental Problems | |
| The Study of Morality | |
| Moral Dilemmas and Disagreements | |
| The Problem of Relativism | |
| Moral Justification | |
| Types of Ethical Theory | |
| Utilitarian Theories | |
| Kantian Theories | |
| Contemporary Challenges to Traditional ... MORE | |
| Virtue Ethics | |
| The Ethics of Care | |
| Casuistry | |
| Ethical Principles | |
| Respect for Autonomy | |
| Beneficence | |
| Justice | |
| Law and Policy | |
| Ethics and Public Affairs | |
| Morality and Law | |
| Legal and Moral Rights | |
| Law, Authority, And Autonomy | |
| Justice and Autonomy in Health Care | |
| Justice in Access to Health Care | |
| Introdcution | |
| Just Health Care and the Right to Health Care | |
| "Is There a Right to Health Care and, if so, What Does it Encompass?" | |
| "Justice, the Basic Social Contract, and Health Care." | |
| "The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care." | |
| "Rights to Health Care." | |
| Managed Care and Access to Care | |
| "Securing Health or Just Health Care?: The Effect of the Health Care System." | |
| "Managed Care: How Economic Incentive Reforms Went Wrong." | |
| "Managed Care: Rationing without Justice, But Not Unjustly." Rationing | |
| "''Rationing'' Health Care: Not All Definitions are Created Equal." | |
| "Rationing Fairly: Programmatic Considerations." | |
| "Just Caring: Oregon, Health Care Rationing, and Informed Democratic Deliberation." | |
| Autonomy Rights and Medical Information | |
| Introduction | |
| The Confidentiality of Medical Information | |
| "Confidentiality in Medicine - A Decrepit Concept." | |
| California Supreme Court, Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California | |
| "AIDS, Confidentiality, and the Right to Know." Truth Telling and Disclosing Bad News | |
| "Telling the Truth to Patients: A Clinical Ethics Exploration." | |
| "Disclosure of a Diagnosis to Children and Adolescents When Parents Object | |
| Informed Consent | |
| United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, Cantebury v. Spence | |
| "Physicians and Patients: A History of Silence." | |
| "The Concept of Informed Consent." | |
| "Informed Consent: Some Challenges to the Universal Validity of the Western Model." | |
| Refusal of Treatment | |
| California Court of Appeals, Second District, Bouvia v. Superior Court | |
| United States Supreme Court, Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health | |
| Advance Directives | |
| "Advance Care Planning as a Process: Structuring the Discussions in Practice." | |
| "Advance Directives: The Next Generation." | |
| Life and Death | |
| End-of-Life Decisionmaking | |
| Introduction | |
| The Right to Die | |
| "A Right to Choose Death?" | |
| "Is There a Right to Die?" | |
| The Legal Background in the United States | |
| The Oregon Death With Dignity Act | |
| United States Supreme Court, Vacco v. Quil and Washington v. Glucksberg | |
| The Supreme Court of California, Wendland v. Wendland | |
| The Moral Foundations of Public Policy on Physician-Assisted Death | |
| "Voluntary Euthanasia under Control?: Further Empirical Evidence from the Netherlands." | |
| "Slippery Slopes in Flat Countries: A Response." Palliation and Other Alternatives to Physician-Assisted Death | |
| "An Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide." | |
| "Palliative Options of Last Resort." | |
| Abortion and Maternal-Fetal Relations | |
| Introduction | |
| The Problem Justifying Abortion | |
| "Why Abortion is Immoral." | |
| "A Defense of Abortion." | |
| "The Morality of Abortion." | |
| "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion." | |
| Legal Issues | |
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